January 19, 2023
Global PC Shipments See Record YoY Decline in Q4 2022
Global PC shipments fell 27.8% YoY in Q4 2022 to reach 65.2 million units. For the full year of 2022, the shipments declined 15% YoY. Macroeconomic…
October 25, 2022
Global PC Shipments’ Double-digit Crash in Q3
Taipei, London, Hong Kong, Boston, Toronto, New Delhi, Beijing, Seoul – October 25, 2022 Global PC shipments fell 15.5% YoY in Q3 2022 to reach 71.1…
September 21, 2022
IFA 2022 Focuses on Enhanced User Experience in Consumer IoT Products
This year’s edition of Internationale Funkausstellung (IFA), Europe’s biggest consumer electronics show, showcased some interesting product…
July 27, 2022
Global PC Shipments in Q2 2022 See Largest YoY Decline Since Q2 2013
Taipei, London, Hong Kong, Boston, Toronto, New Delhi, Beijing, Seoul – July 27, 2022 Global PC shipments fell 11.1% YoY in Q2 2022 to reach 71.2…
April 28, 2022
Global PC Shipments Down 4.3% YoY in Q1 2022; Component Shortages Likely to Ease in H2
Taipei, London, Hong Kong, Boston, Toronto, New Delhi, Beijing, Seoul – April 28, 2022 Global PC shipments fell 4.3% YoY in Q1 2022 to reach 78.7…
January 20, 2022
Global PC Shipments up 3.1% YoY in Q4 2021; Component Supply Improving
London, Hong Kong, Boston, Toronto, New Delhi, Beijing, Taipei, Seoul – January 20, 2022 Global PC shipments reached 90.3 million in Q4 2021 to…
January 12, 2022
CES 2022: TP-Link, Netgear, Asus Drive Wi-Fi 6E Momentum
Despite several larger OEMs and Internet Service Providers pulling back from physically attending, the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) saw some…
October 18, 2021
Global PC Shipments Grow for Sixth Consecutive Quarter; Chromebook in Slow Lane
London, Hong Kong, Boston, Toronto, New Delhi, Beijing, Taipei, Seoul – October 18, 2021 Global PC shipments marked their sixth consecutive YoY…
July 9, 2021
Global PC Shipments up 45% YoY in Q1 2021; Chip Shortage Impact to Continue in H2 2021
Global PC shipments grew 45% YoY in Q1 2021 on solid demand and a low base in the same period in 2020 due to COVID-19. Shortages of key IC…
March 26, 2021
First Impressions: Asus ROG Phone 5 Brings Promising Upgrade, But Competition Gets Fierce
The Asus ROG Phone 5 is powered by the latest 5nm Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 SoC. It is one of the first smartphones to feature up to 18GB of RAM. The…
December 22, 2020
Global Demand for Laptops Gets Pandemic Push
The surge in work-from-home and study-from-home due to the COVID-19 pandemic has meant good news for the laptop market. Counterpoint expects that the…
November 20, 2020
Podcast: Gaming Smartphones are More Than Just Flagships
Mobile gaming has come a long way over the past two decades. From popular Snake game on Nokia phones with a monochrome display to 2D games on color…
October 30, 2020
Asus ROG Phone 3 Review: Gold Standard for Gaming Smartphones
The ROG Phone 3 flaunts an AMOLED screen with a 144Hz refresh rate. It is armed with a 6,000mAh battery with 30W fast-charging support. The…
July 1, 2019
Market Share of Top Five Smartphone OEMs in Indonesia Reached Highest-Ever Level During Q1 2019
The Indonesian smartphone market is increasingly concentrated at the top with the market share of the top five smartphone OEMs reaching the…
January 5, 2017
CES 2017-Day 1: highlights
Alexa is stealing the show Amazon’s Alexa is everywhere at CES 2017: China’s Huawei has added Alexa to its flagship Mate 9 smartphone; LG has put…
September 2, 2015
Intel at IFA – evolving computing but quiet on smartphones
Intel held a characteristically demo-rich press conference at IFA on September 2nd. Intel formally announced the sixth generation of its Core series…
September 22, 2014
Infographic: The Q2 Handset/Smartphone Market in One Page
Below is one of the infographics we update quarterly to summarize the events each quarter for the handset and smartphone market. The data comes from…